Wimamp is a great audio application. There are many people (for instance the author of this post) who seem to be addicted to it. I especially like the earlier versions that didn’t have all the fluff of today’s multimedia apps but, unlike them, could play a clear sound.

I have been living under Linux for many years and I certainly don’t miss Windows. I do miss certain applications but fortunately almost all of them have been ported to Linux or have a decent substitute.

For many years I used for audio files XMMS, the Linux Winamp. But after a recent reinstall, I was unpleasantly surprised that it didn’t work on my computer anymore. I had to look for a substitute.

Out of the numerous audio/video players for Linux, it wasn’t hard to select a bunch. However, the application I liked best was Qmmp because it felt just like XMMS and Winamp, of course.

I am running an Ubuntu derivative, so I didn’t have to go an extra mile to download and compile Qmmp because it was readily available via the Synaptic Package Manager. Many other distros (not only the Debian ones) also include Qmmp in their repositories, so chances are that you just need to install it.

Qmmp plays many formats – MPEG, Ogg Vorbis, Native and FLAC to name a few – and in my humble opinion the sound quality is better than that of other audio players. Another advantage of Qmmp is that there are tons of skins for it, so if you are bored by the default one, you don’t have to stick to it.

Give Qmmp a try and tell me what you think.

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